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Recenlty I have checking again the website of the developer’s of Firestorm and Phoneix viewer and there are some interesting changes!. Firts let’s begin with Firestorm Viewer (this information is extracted from the phoenix viewer website):

Phoenix-Firestorm 3.3.0.24880 Release!This one started out as a maintenance release but due to the huge list of new features we’re going to call it a Full On Release! Firestorm 3.3.0.24880 not only comes with a very impressive list of features which make it nearly feature complete in comparison to Phoenix, it also comes loaded with very important bug fixes.

Added slider to DoF tab in preferences to control the quality of DoF (Tankmaster Finesmith)

Made additional lighting in Edit Appearance optional (Zi Ree)

But there’s a little more, just because they are making some changes in the FUI (flexible user interface), so this new interface of Firestorm will make it look like as Phoenix Viewer or V1 Viewer. Here is a little explanation about:

“Firestorm Future! Flexible Interface!Wow! this is exciting news! We told you in the past that the V2 interface was just not flexible enough for us to accurately mimic the V1 interface.. this still holds true today. However! we’ve recently merged in Linden Lab’s V3 FUI (Flexible User Interface) work and while that merge has caused a lot of interface breakage we’ve also discovered that it is as named, VERY flexible! Zi Ree (creator of the Firestorm AO, Our All-Original Particle Editor, and Pie menu for V2) has been at it again! She has so far managed to create a Phoenix like interface option in Firestorm that is far closer to the classic UI as any modern viewer has ever accomplished! This optional skin feature is likely to be hailed the best feature ever developed on a V2 viewer for V1 users! Of course we’re also working at improving all our other skins as well to give you as many options as possible. We are SO excited about this work! While this is all very much still work in progress and there’s lots left to do we wanted to give you a preview of what’s to come!”

“A new interface for Firestrom Viewer is developing to bring the V1 Viewer Interface into a V2 Viewer”

This is one of the things that Linden Labs should take care about, “the interface”. So many resident’s haven’t decided yet to try the new sl viewer just because they can’t understand or don’t like how the V2 Viewer interface looks like. This is a really good idea that the developers of Firestorm take care to bring the V1 interface into V2 Viewer so many residents would feel at home and with a familiar GUI (Graphical User Interface). Now, let’s speak about another viewer (my favorite one!) Phoenix Viewer, there is a new release which is 1.6.0.1600. But at the moment I didn’t see any information about what new things or changes for this new release, there’s one thing I found:

“Phoenix…Remember we promised we would keep Phoenix going as long as it’s feasible and we will stand by that promise. And it’s sounding lately like LL is starting to take a less aggressive stance towards V1 than what we were initially told nearly a year ago. By the sounds of it, LL has no immediate plans now to break v1 by turning off server side functionality. This of course is nothing more than the impression we are getting, there has been no official statement either way. Which means we want to get another Phoenix release out some time soon as well. When? good question.. no time frame yet but hopefully within the next few months. We’re hoping we can address some of the performance, stability and mesh related issues our Phoenix users are experiencing on the 1600 release.”

This is a good thing to remember for everybody, as people have to leave Internet Explorer 6 (The well known microsoft web browser) then this will be the same with Phoenix Viewer. Phoneix is not gonna be forever in the metaverse and one of this days people will have to leave it and use a new viewer (like Firestrom).